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Kate Winslet to Make Directorial Debut with Netflix Movie "Goodbye June"

Kate Winslet is set to make her directorial debut with with “Goodbye June,” a contemporary family movie that is being produced for Netflix. Along with directing and producing the movie, Winslet will also star in it alongside Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, and Helen Mirren. Kate Solomon is producing with Winslet, with Working Title as executive producers. Penned by Joe Anders, Winslet’s son, the movie is set in present-day England and is described as “touching, yet humorous” drama, which sees "a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances,” the synopsis reads. "Goodbye June" will go into production on location in the U.K. later this year. Although Winslet has never directed a film, she was highly involved in Ellen Kuras’s “Lee,” which she produced and starred in as American photographer Lee Miller.